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Article: The World of the Favourite.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2001
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The World of the Favourite. Edited by J. H. Elliott and L. W. B. Brockliss. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 320. $45.00.)
This book is a collection of papers that were originally presented in 1996 to an international colloquium at Magdalen College, Oxford. The inspiration for this conference was an article published in 1974 by Jean Berenger that suggested that royal favorites were not isolated individuals but part of a European-wide phenomenon that flourished in the early 1600s. Furthermore, favorites appeared during a particular stage in the formation of the early modern state and played an important role in that process. The historians ...